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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commonly used or practiced; usual
Example:
with her wonted candor
Synonyms:
accustomed; customary; habitual; wonted
Classified under:
Similar:
usual (occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure)
Derivation:
custom (accepted or habitual practice)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In accordance with convention or custom
Example:
sealed the deal with the customary handshake
Classified under:
Similar:
conventional (following accepted customs and proprieties)
Derivation:
custom (a specific practice of long standing)
Context examples:
It is customary at Mawson’s for the clerks to leave at midday on Saturday.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An image where, instead of a customary parameter such as activity concentration, other computed results are displayed at each pixel (voxel) in their stead.
(Parametric Image, NCI Thesaurus)
A traditional unit of liquid volume equal in the US customary system to 1/16 pint, or 1.804 687 cubic inches or 29.573 531 milliliters.
(Fluid Ounce US, NCI Thesaurus)
It's nothing to me, of course, but I should think he would have come and bid us goodbye like a gentleman, she said to herself, with a despairing look at the gate, as she put on her things for the customary walk one dull afternoon.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I saw him look at the loaf at supper (which happened to be a small one), as if nothing else stood between us and famine; and when my aunt insisted on his making his customary repast, I detected him in the act of pocketing fragments of his bread and cheese; I have no doubt for the purpose of reviving us with those savings, when we should have reached an advanced stage of attenuation.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Go into the library—I mean, if you please.—(Excuse my tone of command; I am used to say, 'Do this,' and it is done: I cannot alter my customary habits for one new inmate.)—Go, then, into the library; take a candle with you; leave the door open; sit down to the piano, and play a tune.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The ‘G’ with the small ‘t’ stands for ‘Gesellschaft,’ which is the German for ‘Company.’ It is a customary contraction like our ‘Co.’ ‘P,’ of course, stands for ‘Papier.’ Now for the ‘Eg.’ Let us glance at our Continental Gazetteer.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The customary allowance of food and drink taken by a person or an animal from day to day, particularly one especially planned to meet specific requirements of the individual, including or excluding certain items of food; a prescribed course of eating and drinking in which the amount and kind of food, as well as the times at which it is to be taken, are regulated for therapeutic purposes or selected with reference to a particular state of health.
(Diet, NCI Thesaurus)
“What’ll I put on his feet, sir?” the man asked, after the customary “Ay, ay, sir.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The man noticed that the tongue was not the customary healthy red.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
